The Most Common Mistake Piano Beginners Make

Do you ever wonder how some can easily learn a whole piano piece in just weeks while it takes months for most to learn? In this lesson, we will talk about poor piano practices and three ways to correct this. I have acquired a cute assistant to help explain the lesson, so be sure to watch until the very end.

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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:40 Cute Foreword
3:00 Analogy on How & Why
5:04 Practice Technique 1
6:55 Practice Technique 2
7:50 Practice Technique 3
8:15 Milo Ends the Lesson

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[cisium]

I will practice the same difficult bar or two over and over if I have to. That jump from the B-octave in Chopin's E minor Prelude: I spent an hour a day just repeating the two measures from the B-octave to the A-minor chord, just over and over and over. Comforting to know that's actually considered a practice technique - I thought I just had OCD, lol.

[Waterghosteus]

Another thing that I've noticed when practicing, is that sometimes I would practice bars 5-8 and bars 9-12. But then when it came time to actually play the piece, I would always mess up on the transition between 8 and 9.
So make sure instead of practicing in discrete sections, you overlap your practice chunks.

[wotansings]

"Think like the producer not like the consumer" is probably the best advice I've ever heard. Well said Jazer Lee!

[ldgalaxy]

I am 65 and retiring at the end of next week. One of my goals is to relearn and build on the piano skills I had in my youth. I took lessons for about 8 years, but never did anything serious after high school. I have been doing self-teaching for a few months to get ready for my retirement piano adventure. I will be using your techniques immediately in my practice time. I have been using a bit of the "no pedal" for awhile, but I never thought of the "no rhythm" method. I am working on Mozart's "rondo alla turca" and have a couple of rough spots that I tend too gloss over, but this should help me correct some bad habits. Thank you for the video and excellent advice.

[jazerleepiano]

You asked for it. So here it is - your handy dandy Timestamps 🤓

🕘 Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:40 Cute Foreword
3:00 Analogy on How & Why
5:04 Practice Technique 1
6:55 Practice Technique 2
7:50 Practice Technique 3
8:15 Milo Ends the Lesson

[jorgerivas]

Thanks, Jazer. I've been playing piano for almost 60 years and found this out through the school of hard knocks. I have a friend who won 1st place in the Tchaikovsky piano competition years ago. He was also a piano professor at a local university. He sometimes spent a 1/2 hour on one measure of a difficult piece & was a stickler for perfection. I can spend months studying just one Dotzauer cello etude and still not get it the way I want it. How much "perfection" is perfect?

[jagnelson]

This guy such a great teacher. He's so insightful and always puts himself in the place of the student.
He also covers a wide range of nuances pertaining to learning the instrument, which I find extremely helpful for students to move forward.
He's truly one of the best.

[aeew]

When I see your videos I 1) watch it and 2) play something. It's a good reminder to go play. Thanks Jazer.

[neromantic]

Yes, but at some point if you spend most of your practice time taking apart and drilling the difficult parts then under pressure you may find you play only those difficult parts well (and unexpectedly make mistakes in easier sections where you didn't spend much rehearsal time.) Whole piece does need to be drilled regularly enough to get it in muscle memory unless maybe you have uncommon calm, non-anxious performance temperament.

[T-marie-N]

Thanks! I'm definitely guilty of playing the entire piece.

I stumbled on a technique that I'm using now. I was having trouble playing a certain key combination from The Entertainer so I closed my eyes and played it several times--just feeling how it felt under my fingers. That helped me quite a bit.

[shirleypeters]

Ha! That “no rhythm practice” is me!! Not sure I’ll move past this. Thanks for great video. Great advice!

[kuurp]

I became a advanced piano player under a year, and i think it's amazing how i even reached advanced level by self-teaching, Jazer is one of the people whom i watch to correct my wrong techniques and it helped alot, i also overcame the hand/finger independence. Thanks to you and other people on the internet i haven't regretted playing piano up until now.

[rhiannastaker]

Excellent video and not just for pianists. As an ex-pro dancer, we were taught that practice makes permanent as well as it takes doing the same thing on average 72 to become muscle memory. Meaning that if you practice the entire routine over and over, you aren't fixing your mistakes, you are making your mistakes muscle memory and it's a lot harder to unlearn something to perform it correctly than it is to learn it correctly from the start

[johnpawlicki]

I have noticed that on particularly difficult clips, which I may have a difficult time getting it perfect, I stop and take a break for a short time. Practicing it wrongly, I have found, is really counterproductive. Many times, when I come back from a short rest, the passage comes much easier.
Another great video. Thanks.

[reflectzmoments]

Yes, the no rhythm practise is what happened whenever I started to play a new piece of song which I totally have not play before. It's so difficult to get the rhythm right when the notes are not even play correctly. Love 😍 watching your videos as I always find something 🆕 to learn and know. You are so amazing! Thank you for the videos! 🥰🤗🙆🏻‍♀️

[playboyeinstein]

Thank you jazer you are literally showing my own mistakes.

[geraldinestone]

Jazer, I learned about the 'three p's' from a sewing channel I follow. I've added a couple of p's of my own which I now apply to anything I want to achieve. My five p's are Planning, Preparation, Patience, Practise and Persistence. Thanks for the tips. As an absolute beginner I'm benefiting from your wisdom.

[gloriabowen]

Thanks Jazer! I am 73 and just took up studying piano again. I studied a short time in my twenties but then didn't become interested again until recently after hearing some piano concertos and following some pianists who inspire me. It has become an obsession with me, not sure how it all happened but glad it did, and your lessens are a tremendous help! I have been studying for just one month and I feel happy with the progress I have made so far. I look forward to getting more tips from you as I become a more accomplished pianist! (By the way, what breed of puppy do you have? I think I want one!!)

[clement]

Yesterday I was practicing the 2 hands part of your Despacito tutorial the "no-rythm" way and couldn't stop thinking it was not the good way. Today I'm happy to discover it's ok. 👍
Thank you Jazer for your tutorials. You're one of the youtubers thanks to whom I've played the piano for 2 weeks, making me happy and my life more colourful. 🌈 See u Milo 👋

[peonieflwr]

Thank you so much for this reminder, it’s what my piano teacher told me before and sometimes I also tend to forget and keep practicing start to finish too. That took me much longer to learn unless if I try to piecemeal it and break it all down until I get the hard sections first. ☺️